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M&S profits soar by 35%

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M&S profits soar by 35% - Profits for Marks & Spencer soared by 35% last year £751m, as Stuart Rose's spectacular womenswear-led revival continues Stamp duty rakes £1bn month - Gordon Brown is raking £1bn month stamp duty, £250m inheritance tax, according latest figures



M&S profits soar by 35%  [05/23/2006 02:21 PM]
Profits for Marks & Spencer soared by 35% last year to £751m, as Stuart Rose's spectacular womenswear-led revival continues
Stamp duty rakes in £1bn a month  [05/23/2006 02:21 PM]
Gordon Brown is raking in £1bn a month in stamp duty, and £250m in inheritance tax, according to the latest figures
Market report: Tuesday 12.30  [05/23/2006 02:21 PM]
City investors had their prayers answered today with share prices enjoying a better time, led higher by battered mining companies
Clampdown on elderly drivers  [05/23/2006 02:21 PM]
Elderly drivers should face tougher restrictions to stem the number of people aged 70 or older being involved in traffic accidents
Brewer Young's to merge with rival  [05/23/2006 02:21 PM]
Developers eye £80m site in plan to shift beer production from Wandsworth to Bedford and end a 175-year tradition
Germans top NYSE bid for Euronext  [05/23/2006 02:21 PM]
The battle for control of global stock exchanges took a dramatic turn today as Germany's Deutsche Borse topped the NYSE offer for Euronext
CMC to delay float after market agony  [05/23/2006 02:21 PM]
Financial trading firm CMC Markets is set to postpone its £800m flotation on the LSE in the wake of recent market turmoil
Improved offer on table for ABP  [05/23/2006 02:21 PM]
The UK's biggest ports operator has opened its books to a bid consortium after receiving a new takeover proposal
South-East has biggest sexes pay gap  [05/23/2006 02:21 PM]
The pay gap between men and women is biggest in the South-East and lowest in Wales, official figures have revealed
Coldplay and Gorillaz boost EMI  [05/23/2006 02:21 PM]
With hit albums from Coldplay and Gorillaz, music giant EMI comfortably outstripped its rivals and beat City expectations last year
GNER takes rail chiefs to court  [05/23/2006 02:21 PM]
A major train company is to take rail chiefs to court in the continuing row over services on a main London to Scotland route
Lloyds facing hurricane season  [05/23/2006 02:21 PM]
Lloyd's insurance market is assessing a new warning that the hurricane season starting next month could pound the southern US
Firms hit by £2.6bn pension bill  [05/23/2006 02:21 PM]
Firms face a £2.6bn bill to boost their employees' pensions, according to a leak of this week's reforms
Sex toys swell SSL profit to £49m  [05/23/2006 02:21 PM]
Better-than-expected sales of Durex sex toys are giving a lift to the fortunes of condoms-to-sandals maker SSL
A&L soars on bid talk  [05/23/2006 02:21 PM]
Shares in Alliance & Leicester rose sharply today after French banking giant Credit Agricole confirmed it is considering a bid
Lotto winner gives away £3.5m  [05/23/2006 02:21 PM]
Great grandfather Bob Bradley, who won £3.5m on the lottery, has given a huge amount to children's charities and spent the rest on family and friends
Punch to auction Spirit pubs  [05/23/2006 02:21 PM]
Pub operator Punch Taverns today said it will sell 380 of the outlets it bought from Spirit group in December for £2.7bn
Chrysalis records ad revenue jump  [05/23/2006 02:21 PM]
The owner of Heart and Galaxy today offered signs of a trading revival after advertising revenues jumped 10% since March
Cleanaway sale sparks waste sector frenzy  [05/23/2006 02:21 PM]
Unprecedented takeover action in the UK waste disposal market could kick off with a £600m offer for the Cleanaway bin men group
A to Z of the Sunday newspapers  [05/23/2006 02:21 PM]
This is Money reads the Sunday papers so you don't have to. Here is this week's round-up of the bigger stories from the financial pages
Second time-buyers stay put  [05/23/2006 02:21 PM]
Rising house prices have left people unable to climb off the first rung of the property ladder - compounding problems for first-time buyers
Watchdog's Thames Water fury  [05/23/2006 02:21 PM]
Thames Water is set to miss key targets for reducing its massive leakage problem for the third successive year, Financial Mail can reveal
This is the one show you should switch off  [05/23/2006 02:21 PM]
The Financial Mail's ace investigator tells TV shoppers to beware a shambles of a channel
Labour spin on pensions can't mask its follies  [05/23/2006 02:21 PM]
Until proper compensation is paid to the victims of failed pension schemes, talk by Labour of a new dawn for pensions is highly misleading
Who will pick up the tab if Equitas fades?  [05/23/2006 02:21 PM]
You thought all of the rich and famous who risked their fortunes in the burlesque of the Lloyd's of London insurance market were dead and buried?